As the world moves toward greater use of low-carbon and zero-carbon energy sources, a possible bottleneck looms, according to a new MIT study: the supply of certain metals needed for key clean-energy technologies. Wind turbines, one of the fastest-growing sources of emissions-free electricity, rely on magnets that use the rare earth element neodymium. And the [...]
AMSTERDAM, March 5, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — The Thai Meteorological Department (TMD) will install a Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] WindTracer® Doppler lidar system at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport as part of its Integrated Windshear Alerting System. Suvarnabhumi is the sixth busiest airport in Asia, having handled 47.9 million passengers in 2011. Severe weather events [...]
Rutland, VT (PRWEB) January 03, 2012 The U.S. Forest Service has approved the construction of a 15-turbine wind energy facility on the Green Mountain National Forest in Vermont today, which will provide enough electricity to power about 13,000 homes annually. Today’s announcement marks the culmination of an environmental analysis and record of decision for the [...]
SAN DIEGO, Dec 20, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — The U.S. Department of the Interior issued its final approval of the Tule Wind Power Project today when Secretary Ken Salazar signed the Record of Decision on the Environmental Impact Statement. This is the approval for the portion of the project on federal lands, making it the [...]
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. & PRINCETON, N.J., Dec 19, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — NRG NRG +5.98% and The Kraft Group today announced a comprehensive sustainable energy supply agreement for Gillette Stadium, home of the New England Patriots and the New England Revolution, and Patriot Place, The Kraft Group’s shopping, dining, and entertainment destination in Foxborough, Massachusetts. Under [...]
The California Energy Commission today awarded $646,661 to UC Davis for a research project that will help improve the state’s grid operator’s ability to forecast wind energy generation. “Improving the forecasts will help system operators deal with the intermittent nature of wind-based electric power and aid in making wind power work as an integral part [...]
Campbell Scientific Inc. (CSI), with more than 35 years of world-class measurement equipment experience, has today announced the selection of wind lidar system ZephIR 300 as the company’s remote sensing solution for providing the US wind energy market with accurate wind data across all stages of a wind farm development project. ZephIR 300, provided by [...]
March 14, 2011 Sidney, BC Canada Fishermen’s Energy, LLC has recently confirmed their reputation as a leading innovator in the field of offshore wind farm development by purchasing the first of AXYS Technologies’ WindSentinel™ wind resource assessment buoys to be deployed in North America. The million dollar WindSentinel™ buoy represents a substantial cost saving over [...]
